Quotes by Chinese Authors

"Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature."

Zhuang Zi, Chinese Philosopher

Music, Nature, Charity, Devotion

"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."

Martin Yan, Chinese Celebrity

Living,

"I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act."

Chow Yun Fat, Chinese Actor

Food, Act, Actors, Care

"Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Wisdom, Heaven, World

"The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves."

Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Leader

Office, President, states, United

"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat."

Jet Li, Chinese Actor

Movies, Buddhism, Past, Years

"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."

Margaret Chan, Chinese Public Servant

Business, Change, Health, Actions

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Beauty,

"A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others."

Chin-Ning Chu, Chinese Businessman

Dream, Dreams, Life, Successful, Understanding

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Friendship, Distrust, Friends

"Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that."

Zhang Ziyi, Chinese Actress

Movies, Wife, Ability, America

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Change, Men

"I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me."

Ziyi Zhang, Chinese Actress

Thought, People, Boyfriend

"History can never be covered up."

Zhu Rongji, Chinese Statesman

History,

"Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity."

Xun Zi, Chinese Philosopher

Nature, Evil, Goodness, Humannature

"The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it."

Mao Tse Tung, Chinese Leader

Leadership, Work, Contradiction, Responsibility

"My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story."

Ang Lee, Chinese Director

Love, Actors, First, Instinct

"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Wisdom, Death, Life

"Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues."

Kong Fu Zi, Chinese Philosopher

Humility,

"If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Enemy,

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Self-control, May

"Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole."

Mao Tse Tung, Chinese Leader

Equality, Society, Sexes

"English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different."

Bai Ling, Chinese Actress

Culture, English, Hollywood, Language

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Wisdom, Love, Comfort

"The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Opportunity, Possibility, Defeat, Enemy

"I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it."

Bai Ling, Chinese Actress

Nature, Time

"There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause."

Mao Zedong, Chinese Leader

Art, Politics, Cause, Fact

"It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Integrity, Nature, Duty, May

"As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature."

Cao Yu, Chinese Playwright

Society, People, Ideas, Literature

"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."

Hu Shih, Chinese Philosopher

Authority, Old

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

Lin Yutang, Chinese Author

Home, Travel, Old

"I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy."

Chen Shui-bian, Chinese Statesman

Confidence, Democracy

"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Death, Life, Heaven

"Silence is a source of great strength."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Wisdom, Strength, Silence

"From wonder into wonder existence opens."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Wonder, Existence

"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

People, Example

"Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words."

Xun Zi, Chinese Philosopher

Danger, Earth, Lies, Words

"This film "Hero" talks about the peace of Chinese people."

Jet Li, Chinese Actor

Peace, People, Film

"In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled."

Xun Zi, Chinese Philosopher

Nature, Men, Being, Kings

"There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?"

Iris Chang, Chinese Historian

Society, America, Boston, Cities, Class

"Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it."

Vanessa Mae, Chinese Musician

Art, Traditions

"The object of the superior man is truth."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Truth, Man

"Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal."

Xun Zi, Chinese Philosopher

Nature, Society, End, Quarrels

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Thought, Labor, Learning

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

Mencius, Chinese Philosopher

Friendship, God, Friends

"Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature."

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"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."

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"I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act."

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"Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows."

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"The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves."

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"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."

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"Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances."

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"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

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"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."

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"All warfare is based on deception."

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"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat."

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"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."

​

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

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"A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others."

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"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

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"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

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"I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me."

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"History can never be covered up."

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"Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity."

​

"The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it."

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"My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story."

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"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides."

​

"Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues."

​

"If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near."

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"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

​

"Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole."

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"English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different."

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"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."

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"The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy."

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"I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it."

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"There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause."

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"It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins."

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"As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature."

​

"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."

​

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

​

"I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy."

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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

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"Silence is a source of great strength."

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"From wonder into wonder existence opens."

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